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Belgian Teenager Sentenced For Killing A Malian Nanny

A nineteen year old Belgian has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Malian nanny and her two-year-old charge in a racist shooting spree.

A court in Antwerp found Hans van Themsche guilty of killing Oulematou Niangadou and then shooting toddler Luna Drowart when she started crying.

The teenager, Van Themsche, 19, also shot and wounded a woman of Turkish descent during his rampage in central Antwerp in May 2006.

He was accosted by a policeman who shot him in the stomach.

He later told the police he had hoped to kill at least five foreigners before dying in a hail of police bullets.

Sentence

The jury rejected a defence argument that Van Themsche was mentally ill.

In the words of Justice Michel Jordens, Hans “acted with blind violence, without any respect for the lives and integrity of others, reducing the value of life to nothing in order to affirm himself.”

The 19-year-old showed no reaction as his sentence was passed down.

He was the first person convicted under a law introduced in Year 2003 to punish racist crimes.


African–News/Qasim